Funding News

Funding for NAACP, Urban League turned into corporate leadership

By theGrio

9:01 AM on 08/12/2011

The answer is that the Urban League is utterly dependent on the generosity of corporate donors, and Bill Gates is potentially among the biggest...
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US set to announce $100M in Somalia famine funding

By theGrio

10:33 AM on 08/08/2011

DADAAB, Kenya (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in the country's famine unless more help arrives, a top U.S. official said Monday...
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Obama to increase funding to HBCUs

By theGrio

10:53 AM on 02/01/2010

President Obama's administration has agreed to increase funding to the nation's historically Black colleges and universities...
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Obama seeks $1.35 billion more for schools to "Race to the Top"

By theGrio

4:35 PM on 01/19/2010

From The Baltimore Sun - WASHINGTON - President Obama, delivering a schoolhouse pitch for a $1.35-billion expansion of his signature educational plan, promised to "raise the bar'' for what public schools expect of students and teachers...
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School bus cuts leave parents and students stranded

By theGrio via AP

9:14 AM on 08/24/2009

HOUSTON (AP) -- As a mother of two, Feleccia Moore-Davis is accustomed to the usual back-to-school swirl of new supplies, new clothes and new routines.
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South Africa cuts AIDS vaccine funding

By theGrio via AP

3:28 PM on 07/20/2009

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- South Africa's government joined Monday in launching a high-profile trial of an AIDS vaccine created by its own researchers -- the first designed by a developing country -- but the moment was marred by the lead researcher's announcement it has actually halted funding its own project.
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